TY - JOUR
T1 - An initial study of overheads of eddies
JF - SIGMOD Rec.
Y1 - 2004
A1 - Deshpande, Amol
AB - An eddy [2] is a highly adaptive query processing operator that continuously reoptimizes a query in response to changing runtime conditions. It does this by treating query processing as routing of tuples through operators and making per-tuple routing decisions. The benefits of such adaptivity can be significant, especially in highly dynamic environments such as data streams, sensor query processing, web querying, etc. Various parties have asserted that the cost of making per-tuple routing decisions is prohibitive. We have implemented eddies in the PostgreSQL open source database system [1] in the context of the TelegraphCQ project. In this paper, we present an "apples-to-apples" comparison of PostgreSQL query processing overhead with and without eddies. Our results show that with some minor tuning, the overhead of the eddy mechanism is negligible.
VL - 33
SN - 0163-5808
UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/974121.974129
CP - 1
M3 - 10.1145/974121.974129
ER -